Jerks have to eat

An article from The San Francisco Chronicle via the P-I sports the headline "He wants to put jerks out of work."

Robert Sutton, a respected 52-year-old Stanford University professor, is a gentleman and a scholar. But that isn't stopping him from making liberal use of an unprintable vulgarity to kick off his new campaign to jerk-proof the American workplace.

Sutton, a management-science and engineering professor, says he's not trying to offend anyone with the blunt title of his new book, "The No --hole Rule: Building a Civilized Workplace and Surviving One That Isn't." But he felt he needed to use an "emotionally authentic" term to spur corporate America to stamp out boorish behavior that decreases productivity, drives away talented workers and destroys morale.

I don't think our unemployment insurance system in Washington could handle that many unemployed Republicans.

Even the Wingnut Welfare system couldn't handle the influx, unless China decides it needs to buy a couple of trillion position papers showing how a flat tax will cause manna to fall from heaven. It wouldn't last, though, because Wal-Mart would figure out how to pay people in China poorly to write flat tax position papers, then we'd still be faced with the problem of unemployed EFFWA think tank people hanging around begging for used Ayn Rand books. Then the Discovery guys would form a gang and get in singing knife fights with the BIAW and you know what we would have on our hands?

A musical. Oh, the humanity. Let the jerks keep their jobs, I say.